Available for the following HR plans: Free, Standard, Premium, Platinum
As a business you can have multiple locations based in different suburbs or states; in these cases your organisation would have different employees employed in each location. Having a location register with a record of each address and the location hierarchy will allow you to maintain an accurate record of who works where within your organisation.
The Cost Centre feature allows you to create a list of cost centres that you can allocate against your employees. The feature also allows you to disable a cost centre if it is no longer in use, edit the data if it changes, and delete a record if it is no longer required.
Warning
Cost Centres do not sync over to Xero; this means your organisation's payroll admin will need to enter this information manually into your Xero platform.
Getting started
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Cost Centres submenu.
- Click the Add Cost Centre button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Name.
- Parent cost centre.
- Click the Save button.
Editing data
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Cost Centres submenu.
- Click the Actions button.
- Click the Edit button.
- Make the required changes and click the Save button.
Data management
Important
The feature is only available when a cost centre shows an inactive status.
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Cost Centress submenu.
- Click the Actions button.
- Click the Enable button.
Deleting data
Important
The feature is only available when there are active employees assigned to a cost centre.
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Cost Centres submenu.
- Click the Actions button.
- Click the Disable button.
Important
If a cost centre is deleted, then the historical data attached to it will be deleted also.
E.g. cost centres attached to approved timesheets of active employees will be removed if this cost centre is deleted.
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Cost Centres submenu.
- Click the Actions button.
- Click the Delete button.
- Click the Delete button.
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